Book ID: 97224
Kirwan, Guy M., Kerem A. Boyla, Peter Castell, Barbaros Demirci, Metehan Özen, Hilary Welch and Tim Marlow
The Birds of Turkey. The Distribution, Taxonomy and Breeding of Turkish Birds. 2008. maps. col. photogr. 512 p. gr8vo. Hardcover. - In English, with species names in Turkish, Dutch, French, German and Swedish.
The book is the first avifauna to document this amazing ornithologicaldiversity. The book looks in detail at every species ever reported in the country - breeding birds, passage migrants, winter visitors andvagrants - with a review of status and distribution, accurate distribution maps, and discussions of breeding biology and the latest taxonomic revisions. Introductory chapters provide overviews of Turkey'smajor biomes and the history of ornithology in the country, and a discussion of future research objectives. The book also contains stunning colour photography.